Academic Methods

1. Study cycle, Bachelor

The students: • have a basic understanding of the necessity of science, research and publishing in the scientific community. • understand how the state of research on a particular topic is determined. • can formulate research questions clearly and appropriately to the topic. • know different methods for answering research questions and can select the one that is relevant to the topic. • have an overview of where to research which specialist literature and how to evalu-ate it as well as how it is used appropriately in the text (critical reflection, citation style). • can differentiate in the relevance of practical and scientific problems and questions. • have the knowledge to write a scientific paper of medium complexity and manage-able volume according to given formal specifications.

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• Characteristics, rules and basic principles of science and scientific work • Scientific theory and methodological principles of scientific research • Overview of the research method observation, questioning, content analysis and experiment • Using word processing programs to write formally correct scientific papers • Overview of databases and other ways to find literature sources • Editing and critical discussion of articles from professional journals

• Ebster, Claus; Stalzer, Lieselotte.: Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftler. UTB (in the current edition) • Nicol, Natascha; Albrecht, Rolf: Scientific work with Word. Addison Wesley (in the current edition) • 1-2 recent articles from professional journals

Portfolio

German

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Blended Learning

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Prof. (FH) Dr. Peter Dietrich

IBS.BBB.02.06

integrated lecture

Compulsory

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